Jj Jellybeans; "Sheep Asleep"

We did crafts last week but I took a vacation (which I'll blog about next) so we took this week off.

Jj is for Jellybeans! I figured that we might as well put the real thing on there, right?? Most of them went in the mouth but lots made it to the paper.
For our book we did "Sheep Asleep" which is about 10 sheep and their nighttime routine to go to bed. I was going to do the cotton with sheep and then I looked outside and saw all of the beautiful trees so we decided to go GREEN! We picked the flowers and leaves and then used them for the sheep's fur and grass. I thought it ended up looking pretty cute.

Playing Catch Up

Okay, okay, okay. I am so far behind in blogging that I don't even know how to play catch up! I would just skip a lot of it but this is also a journal of sorts so I would feel really guilty. I mean, what if Lukey wanted to see a blog of him at Easter 2009 and I hadn't blogged it! What if???!! I will try my best to be brief.

Another one of our many Easter egg hunts. This one was really cool, however, because A.) it was free and B.) they had lot of cool stuff to do. The kids had tons of fun picking up eggs and there were even so many that several were left on the ground. That's what I call an egg hunt!This church had tons of awesome inflatable toys. Coop has no fear when it comes to these things. If we would have let him he would have stayed ALL day!

Live toys--no way!

Amazingly, we actually had two more Easter egg hunts on the actual Easter day. I am so tired of eggs! However, I will admit that I recycled all of the eggs! I only actually ended up stuffing 10 of them myself. The kids never caught on to the fact that they kept opening the same thing in all of their eggs! I wonder how many more years I'll be able to do that...




Yeah, you don't see me with an Easter basket because Jake forgot to get me one. It's a good thing he's so outstanding in many other ways to compensate for his forgetfulness!

Finally!!! Our last hunt. Yeah!


We tried, I'm not so sure we suceeded at getting an Easter family pic. You judge!

Okay, we're getting somewhere with these posts. I'll try another one.

Easter Egg Hunt's Begin

This is the first of 3 planned Easter Egg Hunts. What has become of our society? The boys had so much fun, though! The problem was that we left the candy out in the sun too long so it ended up being a HUGE mess! Oh well, all in the name of fun!



It took us mom's 20 times longer to take this picture than the first one with just the kids. Everyone had to look right and fought about where they were going to sit and then we had a 5 year old take all the pictures. I think she did a pretty good job! Aren't we just cute as buttons?

Spring is in the Air

Don't you love this time of year? You can finally go outside again if you're brave enough to ward off the wasps, pollen, etc. I love it when the azaleas start to bloom and the world turns green again. Plus, there's something so precious about little boys in short jammies.
We had some fun at Chuck E. Cheese. The one of Lukey and the mouse was literally 2 seconds before he burst out in hysterics with fear and launched himself across the table at me. It was pretty stinking funny.
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My parents are tearing out and replacing the concrete around the pool area. The boys have been faithfully watching the tractors and men working for days now. Here's Jake having a little fun in a Bobcat that certainly is not his. But they left the key in it--Not Guilty.

Yeah for Jesus!

Before you judge me for my title and perhaps think that I have turned into a Bible Belt Southern Baptist singing songs and swaying to the Hallelujah's--just listen. We painted eggs and talked about Easter for FHE. I was trying to explain the Resurrection to a 2 year old. What do you say? I said "Jesus died for us and then came back to life after 3 days--Yeah for Jesus!". Cooper shouted "Yeah for Jesus". I thought, okay, that works. Why not? Here's our fun:

I do not like green eggs and ham!! At least after I try it!
Aren't those eggs a sight to behold?? Believe me, they are all broken now. Cooper thinks its funny to throw them on the ground.

Craft Update

Okay, so when it rains it pours! I keep meaning to update but then I don't. Those who are fellow procrastinators know what I mean. Here are some things that have kept us busy lately!


For those of you who claim it's too expensive to craft check this out--Coolest craft ever and it only cost $1! I bought the $1 Epson Salt at Dollar Tree and then mixed food coloring in the bags. Then I just recycled old bottles. Beat that! Yeah! Seriously people, it might take an initial investment of like $20 at the dollar store and then you're set for months. Stop making excuses!:)

Shake that salt!!Then we played a color hunt game where I would hold up one of the bags and the kids would go run and try to find something in the room that was the same color. Of course, the first one with it right got a treat--gotta have incentive!
Then we made rainbow jars. Messy? A little. But Priceless.



Yeah, sometimes I think I'm crazy--otherwise why on earth would I let a 15 month old finger paint?? It lasted about 1 minute before the fingers started going in the mouth. Maybe we'll try again in 6 months...maybe.
Ii-is for ICE and ice cream and igloo and lots of other hard things to come up with!

I mixed Epson salt with almost boiling water. When it dries it takes on the appearance of ice. Pretty cool if I must say so!


We did a FABULOUS book project from the book "Don't Mention Pirates". We read the book and then...Cooper put on his pirate hat and rode in his "boat" to look for treasure...spotted!!...
He loved the random treasures he found. I'm telling you this project was a winner from the very first minute!

Walking Update

Just to clarify, Lukey is not walking. Actually, he hasn't taken a step since then. I get these weekly updates from BabyCenter that tell me milestones my children should be reaching. Well, for Luke it said that 98% of babies are walking by this age. What are the chances that Luke would fall into that "other" 2 %? How annyoing!